Tea For Weight Loss: How it Helps Prevent Weight Gain?
As a natural beverage, tea has been used as healthy drink for thousands of year, its function of corpulent reducing has brought more and more attention all over the world. It is an incredible beverage that can improve overall health in myriad ways. Instead of reaching for sugary sodas or dangerous weight loss pills, simply pour yourself a cup of tea and sip your way to better health. This beverage is also particularly suited to increasing weight loss.
Tea comes in different varieties, and what kind of tea could be used in losing weight?
Green Tea
Green tea is one of the most well-known types of tea, and is second to none when it comes to health benefits. A review published in 2010 found that green tea supplements, containing catechins or caffeine, had a positive impact on weight loss and weight management. In fact, it has a particularly high concentration of EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate—a tea catechine that is known to aid weight loss). In green tea the caffeine and tea polyphenols and other substances can promote the metabolism of the body, there are also related studies confirmed that can accelerate the oxidation of fat, increase the consumption of daily calories, reduce excess calories, and thereby reduce fat storage. There is substantial evidence linking drinking green tea to decrease in both weight and body fat. There's also evidence that drinking green tea can turbo-charge your body's ability to burn fat, helping you reach your weight loss goals even faster.
Black Tea
Black tea is a type of tea that has undergone more oxidation than other types of teas. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that happens when the tea leaves are exposed to the air and causes its dark color. It can inhibit the accumulation of fat in the lower abdomen. In the process of fermentation, it produces a kind of punol component, which plays a role in preventing fat accumulation. It contains caffeine and an amino acid known as l-theanine that boosts energy levels. The L-theanine helps to slow the release of caffeine, creating a longer-lasting energy kick. At the same time, tea polyphenols in Black Tea and their oxidation products can dissolve fat, promote the discharge of lipids, accelerate the decomposition of fat, and reduce the content of fat in the body.
One study from the European Journal of Nutrition reported that both black tea and green tea contain polyphenols. These are antioxidants that protect cellular structures, against damage from free radicals. That means black tea may also contribute to good health and weight loss in humans. The team came to its findings by studying 4 groups of mice and each group followed a different diet for a period of 4 weeks. During 4-week dietary intervention, the researchers found that both the green tea and black tea groups lost weight, and their weights became comparable with the high-sugar diet group.
Oolong Tea
Oolong tea is a traditional Chinese tea. It contains almost no vitamin C but plenty of minerals such as iron and calcium, as well as components that promote digestive enzymes and break down fat, burning body fat. Polyphenols in the tea block the absorption of dietary fat and cholesterol by over 50% when taken 3 times a day. Weight loss with oolong tea can effectively reduce weight, reduce abdominal circumference and will not have adverse reactions.
A 2009 Chinese study examined the ability of oolong tea to increase energy and accelerate weight loss. The study consisted of 102 obese individuals who were examined over a 6-week period. Participants consumed four 8-ounce cups of oolong tea every day during the study. The results showed that 70% of participants lost a minimum of 2 pounds. Almost a quarter of participants lost more than 6 pounds.
White Tea
White tea is obtained from the new and the very young buds and leaves of the tea plant. It is made from leaves picked in early spring, it is introduced in the magazine Best Nutrition Guide that comparing to others tea like green tea, white tea remains the most nutrition due to its simple processing. And it could also improve oral health to killing cancer cells in some test-tube studies. There is expert points out that tea polyphenol in white tea is higher than green tea and oolong tea. And it contains human body necessary active enzyme that can promote fat decomposition.
One study was conducted in vitro in Germany in 2009. The Daily Telegraph of London reported that naturally occurring chemicals especially the antioxidant EGCG in white tea break down fat cells and prevent the formation of new ones. That also means white tea is effective in preventing weight gain to begin with.
Not All Tea Beverage Can Lose Weight
Now we know that tea can help prevent weight, but there is one other thing to know that tea drinks do not do so well. Tea drinks in the market usually contains s lot of sugar which provide a lot of calories. Overmuch drinkable will help energy develop into fat in our body.
Milk tea is a take on the traditional English tea with a splash of milk and a nip of sugar. The pearl milk tea has become the favorite of the young girls, not only for its unique ingredient (tapioca pearl), but also for its striking appearance. Such tea without a mound of sugar is barely worthy of the name. But from a scientific standpoint, high quantity of heat, high oil, no nutritional value, all of these is not good for health. There was experimental proof that milk tea is loaded with fat, sugar and caffeine. The calories in a cup of 700 ml pearl milk tea is more than a bowl of rice, and people must go up the stairs for 60 minutes continuously. Experts says that a glass of 500 ml of bubble tea a day far exceed the allowable limit of trans fats for any person. The trans-fat in milk tea is hard to absorb and accumulate in your body for long time then cause obesity. Add a bit of milk to their regular cup of tea is a habit that many people enjoy. It is a matter of taste, but scientists now say that that drop of milk can completely negate all the benefits tea can have on our health.Milk Tea
In a small study conducted on 16 healthy women, scientists compared the effects of tea on their vascular system, with tea, water and tea with milk. They found that tea relaxes blood vessels (improves flow-mediated dilation), but tea with milk does not. Researchers believe that the most likely explanation is that the caseins, proteins found in milk, form complexes with catechins in tea, its most important flavonoids. Interestingly, they found that proteins in soy milk have the same effect.
Notes
- A lot of people like to drink tea after meals. But from the point of health the right time to drink tea is in one hour after meal. If you drink tea just after a meal will affect the normal acidity and digestive processes. The tannins in tea could inhibit iron absorption even cause the iron-deficiency anemia for long-term. After one-hour’s digestion in your stomach, tea could prevent fat from attacking the stomach.
- Making different teas needs the water in different temperatures. Green tea is at its best when water that is approximately 85 degrees Celsius is used, not boiling water like other Chinese teas like black teas, Oolong teas and Earl grey teas. If the water for making tea is too hot, tea leaves will be spoiled and tea liquor will turn to dark yellow very quickly.
- Freshly brewed green or black tea is better drink quickly. Especially do not drink overnight old the tea. Overnight tea actually means the tea that has been relatively sited out long. It’s not necessarily left out overnight, as long as for a long time. Bacterial can start to grow and most of the Vitamin will get lost and the tea polyphenol will get oxidized. So if you see mold or if the tea becomes murky, don’t drink it.
Losing weight is hard. But getting fit and losing weight doesn't have to be impossible. Drinking tea is a delicious way to stay healthy and hit your fitness goals.
Tea is a naturally calorie-free beverage so you can drink several cups each day without feeling guilty. Although tea can achieve the effect of eliminating fat, but tea does not have the effect that reduces weight directly and everyone has a different constitution. So when buying tea so must not be induced by improper. Make sure to choose teas that are certified organic to avoid side effects of harmful chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides. You'll also get better tasting tea when choosing organic or naturally grown teas. Should pay attention to adjust on daily life and motion, such ability achieves the effect that reduce weight.
Sources:
- https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/green-tea-may-lower-heart-disease-risk
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19597519
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679539/
- https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/132/4/785/4687401
- https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/weight-loss-tea
- https://www.healthstatus.com/health_blog/diabetes-3/milk-in-your-tea-not-a-good-idea/
